At the end of yesterday’s lesson, my students left off working on Questions 4-5 of their handout. Here it is essential that students are able to identity the patterns in perfect binomial squares. It is easy to see whether or not students have identified these patterns when students are asked to complete Question 5e. Encourage students to read through the next example and try to complete Question 6a. I found that many of my students benefited from actually seeing an example done out. So I let them struggle a bit and then I modeled Question 6a and had my students complete 6b and 6c in their teams. Question 6b does give students a bit of a challenge as the x coordinate of the center is at 0.

I am going to present pages 17-18 of the Flipchart and have students answer the questions. Before presenting the answers I will poll the students on their confidence to solve the problem using a clicker poll.

I have allowed 10 minutes for today's closure because I find that my students still require quite a bit of time to write one general form equation into standard form.